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Our Floating City Project – Architectural Design Contest held in the Spring of 2015 was organized in partnership with DeltaSync (Netherlands) and judged by an international panel of experts (see bios below). All design contest images on this page are under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

Jim Lee, professional futurist, investment advisor and author of "Reslience and the Future of Everyday Life and Social Change" answers "How can we sustain ourselves in a world turned upside-down?" Join Carolyn and Jim to learn what trends to expect in society and economics this year and in the next decade. What opportunities are being created through the current chaos? How is society changing to survive and thrive in the current economic and poli...

Engineers have printed an ant-sized radio onto a silicon chip that costs pennies to make and draws power from the information it receives. This brings to life the ubiquitous smart dust potential that author Vernor Vinge prognosticated in fiction, more than a decade ago. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/ant-size-radio/﻿

It's time to start choosing our means of government through seasteading and microtopias. I wrote an article on about this topic 12 years ago, and it is getting some traction now. Really nice to see this - the goal here is to evolve our forms of voluntary self-governance through small-scale experimentation on autonomous floating communities in international waters. This concept has been around for a while, and is getting some funding through Silicon Valley (Peter Thiel) and the Seasteading Institute.﻿

A really beautiful short film about the future of manned space exploration - all the locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in our Solar System, from real photos and map data where available. Run it in HD, and put on the headphones... narration by Carl Sagan is a big plus, too!﻿

Energy storage and wireless power transfer are the two big puzzles that we need to solve to make robotics and electric vehicles more useable. We're still running on 30-year old lithium-ion technology - time to move on, guys!﻿